They Know Not What They Should Pray For As They Ought
MB: I often quote that verse when praying, (Romans 8:26) but now, having stopped to think about it, I realize that should not be true in our case. We have the Thunder of prophecy; we, of all people, should be “in the know.” We might not know how to express our prayers so well—we may stumble along—but to know not what we should be praying for means we’re missing a vital link: prophecy (PDF).
The Thunder of prophecy gives us the knowledge we need to do the job Jesus has given us. We are guided by our spirit helpers, who are guided by the Holy Spirit; therefore, we are guided by the Holy Spirit to pray knowledgeable prayers. It is the Spirit of God speaking through us. The prayers we pray are His prayers—the ones He is using against the Devil.
It is as Dad said in “The Seven Kisses of David”: He’s talking to the Devil through me & He’s giving me Words to fight the Devil, powerful Words, really great Words, wonderful Words!
Grandmother speaking: Spirit warriors should be well versed in the use of their spiritual weapons. “Well versed” means highly knowledgeable, skilled, or experienced in the art of spiritual warfare (Video). If you say you are “well versed,” it means you understand the subject deeply and can navigate it with confidence. That confidence comes only through imbibing and living God’s Word.
Romans 8:14 says the sons of God are “led by the Spirit of God.” Chapter 8 of Romans is a very interesting study, and I’ve come to “lead” you through it. I am your guide (PDF) for this study, so take my hand as we are being “led by the Spirit of God.” It is a very wonderful and mysterious experience to be “led by the Spirit.”
We are going to start at Romans 8:14.
814 is the Greek word ah-TAHK-tos—ataktós—which pictures a “soldier stepping out of rank.” Its two New Testament occurrences appear in Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians, where the apostle addresses believers who had abandoned productive labor while awaiting the Lord’s return. In Thessalonians, it refers to professing believers who were gripped by excitement over Christ’s imminent return and concluded that ordinary vocations were now irrelevant. (See The Great Appointment.)
IQ—Every time you hear from Him, your link with Him gets a little bit stronger. And the more you do it, the easier it gets, until He can punch through at any time because you get so sensitive in the Spirit. (ML 3272:35)
Romans 8:14—For As Many As Are Led By The Spirit Of God, They Are The Sons Of God.
Grandmother: We have passed two beacons in our run to the finish line, and there is another beacon rapidly approaching. Our velocity of travel has not quickened; it is the Spirit that is quickening us (John 6:63). Each day still has twenty-four hours, and there are still seven days in a week. Nothing outwardly has changed, but inwardly—or “in the spirit”—much has changed, and the spiritual men, the sons of God, are sensing it (2 Corinthians 4:16).
In some mysterious, inexplicable way, the sons of God are passing through a kind of time warp, and the sensation is that of a shortening of the days (Matthew 24:22). The hours fuse or morph into days, and the days into months. The impression can be described as one great event, rather than days being segmented and controlled by the happenings that govern those in the world—such as hours set for work and play, holidays, and routines.
For the sons of God, this very special period you are now passing through is described in the Bible simply as: “time is no more” (Revelation 10:6). Now, speaking of Revelation 10:6, this event is centered around other very mysterious yet significant verses—Revelation 10:4 and Revelation 10:7. If you haven’t noticed, all three verses appear in Chapter 10 (Video), which describes “the little book,” which fitly describes your ministry, because it is speaking of right now. This is another reason you are sensing this time warp so strongly: you are living Chapter 10. Your father David spoke of this time in the MO letter “The Little Book.” Here is what he said:
I ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THAT LITTLE BOOK WAS, along with the same book or a similar one described in the same way in Ezekiel 2:8 thru 3:3. It certainly symbolized prophecies of God! And if there is anyone who is preaching the Endtime prophecies of God, it’s us, so that little book certainly symbolizes our teachings, if not being an actual reference to our own dear little 3×5 or the ones about to be published.
Certainly they’re similar, if not one and the same, and our End-Time ministry is surely similar to that of the prophets spoken of in these passages, Praise the Lord! The Lord has talked about us in a lot of other Scriptures, why not our little book? PTL!
John 6:63-66 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. John 6:66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
2Corinthians 4:16-18 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Revelation 10:2-4 And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth (Papa lion roars): and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.
Revelation 10:6 (The Angel) sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer: (MB: It was given those living in the time of the End to know this secret)
Revelation 10:7-11 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. (MB: The Little Book was given to Dad, who in his turn gave to us—well to us who had the faith to receive the New, New Wine that was to be poured forth from the throne of God post Reboot)
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings. (MB: The Little Book is the Spirit of prophecy—which the Bible says is Jesus—Jesus, being the Word, is the Spirit of prophecy)
Grandmother: Today is the first day of a new year, 2026, and we might say it is the first year of a new millennium. But let’s not get ahead of the Spirit. As excitement mixes with a little anxiety, our minds tend to want to run ahead of the Spirit. Stay in step, soldier. We are marching to the end; it is just around the next bend. Let us begin this last year with these words in our hearts: “Now is not the time to step out of rank, soldier.”
The Fear of Tomorrow
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The Spirit of God does not lead a person into the world; it leads you out of the world. So what can be said about the life that swirls around you like one of those dusty mini–tornadoes you see during the wilderness dry season you are passing through right now? You watch them pass by—or at times over the top of you—with all the dust, black plastic, straw, and stubble being lifted into the air.
That is the reward of the world. One day it will all be carried away, blown by the wind and tossed aside, as the Spirit of God moves on with you in tow. Those who make their life in the world are the ones being tossed to and fro like flotsam and jetsam in the wind of God as He passes over the earth. They are not being led by the Spirit of God as you are, but are instead being led by the fears of tomorrow Matthew 6:25, 34, and Romans 8:15 calls that fear “bondage.”
Fear is what the Devil uses to bind the believer to himself and to this carnal, material realm—a realm he is feverishly trying to perfect—well, as perfect as flesh can be. As has been said, he has built a false utopia, a counterfeit heaven on earth, promising those who give themselves to him—body and soul—a life of “heaven” here and now.
They That Say They Are Christian – But Are Not
That mentality has seeped into the societal subconscious to the point that, for those in the world, no other world exists. They literally walk in another parallel, another reality. Their minds do not function the way the minds of sons of God do. And sadly, I speak here of the “church” in general, which at this stage has, as Paul said in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, fallen away.
Their eye is not single. They have two eyes, as most of us do, but one of their eyes is on the world. They have taken Paul’s advice to the Thessalonians to an extreme: they are gainfully employed, yes, but they do not have their eye on Christ’s imminent return. They may tell you they are trusting God for their income and provision, but their actions speak otherwise.
The church in general is deeply involved in worldly activities. They do not conduct themselves as foreigners, strangers, and pilgrims. Their eye, therefore, is not single and full of light; instead, darkness has entered into the recesses of their minds, and they have become darkened in their understanding of spiritual matters.
In Matthew 6:22, where this statement is found, a sobering question is raised: “How great is that darkness?” Have they—or more importantly, have you—adopted the ways of the world? Are you a soldier out of rank, or have you adopted the ways of the Father? Do you cry, Abba, Father? Are your eyes single and fixed on Him alone?
The two verses we are discussing follow, and as you will see, their beacons, hanging at the entrance to their trail, are clearly distinguishable to you especially –simply because you are not in darkness as they are, but are in the Spirit, walking in the light.
Matthew 6:22-23 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!
Now, to help you understand how deeply this malady has seeped into the subconscious, I will use myself as an example. I have been quoted as saying, while eating some delicious food, “This is so good it must be sin.”
I WAS JUST INSPIRED BY THE DELICIOUS BREAKFAST THE GIRLS SERVED ME to comment what my mother often said jokingly, “This is so good it must be a sin!”–And I got to thinking about how the Devil is not satisfied in accusing us of sins which are genuinely sins, but he has to make us think that even some of the most innocent pleasures & enjoyments are also sins so he will have more to accuse us of. (Enjoy Yourself #1035)
Like my Mother used to say about things that were good to eat, she had a crack where she’d say, “It tastes so good it must be a sin!” That sums up the church attitude beautifully! Anything that’s enjoyable, anything that’s that much fun, anything that tastes that good, anything that is that great a pleasure, to them, they figure it must be a sin (Keda’s Penance)
Grandmother continues: Now, that may seem harmless enough, but it actually reveals a deeper truth. I was clearly under the impression—or my subconscious-self believed—that enjoying myself on “lusties” was not a heavenly activity. As my son said, that was simply a warped throwback of an attitude the church implanted in me.
Now, to avoid going too far down this path, let me finish with this thought: the church has been infiltrated by the world to the point that its leaders think, preach, and act like those who are part of the world—mind you, not in an openly dirty or offensive way, as that would spoil their appeal, though many still act in ways they themselves label as “sinful” and thus become servants to sin.
So those worldly attitudes and outlooks were fed to me by the church. And since those attitudes are not found in the Bible, they must have come from the world. If the church is tainted by worldly input—and it is—then how much more so are the people of the world, who have no defensive barrier at all?
You see, David was not only feeding his flock the right gospel—angel food cake (Audio)—but he was also endeavoring to change the culture of those under his shepherding. It is a great shame that those who turned aside also attempted to turn that culture aside, suggesting that worldly mindsets were more in line with how Christians should conduct themselves.
I can tell you this: there are no “worldly attitudes” permitted up here. Up here, a deep river of Heavenly thought power flows through society, and those who are not flowing with it stand out very quickly among the crowd. These ones are soon singled out and brought under closer shepherding.
I will step aside for a moment and allow David to put a cap on this part of our Bible study.
BEING AS SUBTLE & AS DIABOLICALLY CLEVER AS HE IS, the Devil has designed & helped man to create an elaborate System whereby he deceives, seduces & enslaves the souls of men! He has so twisted & warped most people’s sense of values that their entire idea of righteousness & goals worth attaining in this life is totally the opposite of God’s idea!–Which means, if you truly “hunger & thirst after righteousness” (Matthew 5:6), God’s real righteousness, & you really want the Truth, you have to be willing to let go of any & all preconceived false ideas or concepts that you have been taught or have accepted as truth. (End)
Grandmother: Now, on the other hand, it can be said that those who are led by the Spirit of God are also “slaves”—also bound. However, though they are bound, they are bound under a different law: bound, yet free; willing love-slaves. You may say that people in the world give themselves willingly to the god of this world, but that is not entirely true. The Word we are reading says they are bound by fear.
Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.
You are very, very blessed to be in the wilderness with us (PDF). Some of your brethren, who wist not that the Spirit had left them, turned back from this Heaven on earth that you are now experiencing. They no longer walk in the Spirit as sons of God, but walk in the world, lost. It is a very sad thing to lose that connection of spirit to Spirit.
The light fades as the spirit unplugs from its source; the light within them dims, and darkness returns to fill those once brightly lit recesses of the mind. It is a sorrowful thing, and we here shed tears of remorse for them. For they not only no longer feel the witness of the Spirit, but their destiny as sons of God slips from their fingers and falls to the ground.
They must, as all must, return someday. But it will not be a happy reunion, as yours will be—if you do not fall out of rank.
Romans 8:17-19 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.
A moment of suffering in this fleeting time cannot be compared with an eternity of glory, bathing in the Light of our wonderful Husband. My dearest grandchildren in the Lord, hold on. Do not falter. Do not allow your light to dim through disconnection. Pay your bills—your tithe of obedience to His will. Stay in the Word. Pump those Key promises into your veins, that they may reach your heart and thus become the witness between your spirit and His.
Romans 8:20-25 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Those lost ones out there groan as we do, but their groaning is that of those in bondage—locked behind the vanity of this world, which appears to be a cage with no door, no lock, and no Key. We have the Key. Jesus is the Door, and the Final Key is about to destroy the lock-hold Satan has on all creation.
We have the Key, beloved. We are the Key holders. It has been given to us and to none other; it is given to those who are connected in spirit with the Spirit. We have the Key to open the way to eternity, the Key to deliver those in the bondage of corruption—liberty has been given into the hands of the children of God.
Stay in rank. Do not fall out of line. Continue in faith as the last beacon comes into sight. For those in the world truly do not know what they should pray for; they can only sigh and hope for a better, more perfect world. It is given to you to pray for them, for you do know what you should pray for, because the Spirit bears witness to your spirit—in the Spirit and by the Spirit.
Make intercession for the martyrs, for the lost saints, for all those trapped in the bondage of this world. And in so doing, you fulfill Scripture, and in fulfilling it, all things will work together for good—for all. (Go to Part 2) (Go to Part 1)
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